Mark Twain censorship?

[Jan Zielinski]

Yelena Kalinsky asks:

 >I wonder if anybody knows whether Mark Twain was ever censored in the 
Soviet Union or how I might find out?

He was censored already by the tsarist censorship:

"Первый русский перевод «Простаков за границей» появился в 1897 г. 
Царская цензура сделала в книге сокращение, в частности там, где он 
описывал пребывание в России."

http://vashsevdom.narod.ru/histor/twain.html

http://forum.roerich.info/showthread.php?t=7210

Here you have something about the film "Adventures of Mark Twain" and 
the soviet censorship:

http://www.diary.ru/~chageandaska/p31513978.htm

You may also want to have a look at this 1963 "Voprosy literatury" 
paper, to see the other side of the problem:

http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/11980114?enc=deu

Jan Zielinski

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